News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Joint statement by Austrian OSCE Chairmanship and Romanian Chair of Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC) on explosions at Kragujevac Military Facility
Publishing date: 1 March 2017
VIENNA, 1 March 2017 – We are deeply saddened to hear of the explosions at the Kragujevac Military Facility in Serbia, site of a joint OSCE-UNDP project, which resulted in the death of at least one person, with many others injured or missing...
OSCE media freedom representative condemns attacks on journalists in Skopje
Publishing date: 1 March 2017
VIENNA, 1 March 2017 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today condemned recent attacks on journalists in Skopje...
Statement by Andrzej Kasprzyk, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office
Publishing date: 1 March 2017
TBILISI, 1 March 2017 – Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on the conflict dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference made the following statement:
Weekly Update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 28 February 2017
Publishing date: 1 March 2017
KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKIY, Russian Federation. The Observer Mission (OM) continues to operate 24/7 at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs). The overall number of border crossings by persons increased at both BCPs. The fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth Russian convoys, both consisting of ten vehicles crossed into Ukraine and returned through the Donetsk Border Crossing Point on 21 and 28 February respectively...
OSCE supports training for judges on combating human trafficking in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 1 March 2017
The first in a series of six OSCE-supported one-day training seminars on good legislative and judicial practices to combat trafficking in human beings began in Astana on 1 March 2017...
Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 19:30, 27 February 2017
Publishing date: 28 February 2017
The SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and fewer in Luhansk region between the evenings of 26 and 27 February compared with the previous 24 hours. The SMM observed houses damaged by shelling in Zolote and Pikuzy. The SMM continued monitoring the disengagement areas in Stanytsia Luhanska, Petrivske and Zolote, but its access remained restricted.* The Mission reviewed video footage from the SMM camera in Zolote that revealed ceasefire violations near the disengagement area on 25 February. The SMM observed weapons in violation of the respective withdrawal lines. The SMM noted the presence of mines and unexploded ordnance in Nova Marivka and Zolote, and near Shchastia. A “DPR” member returned an SMM unmanned aerial vehicle seized by armed men in Yasynuvata on 24 February. The Mission monitored adherence to the ceasefire to enable maintenance and repairs near Artema and Krasnyi Lyman. The SMM monitored the blockade of a railway track near Hirske. It visited two border areas not under government control. The SMM monitored public gatherings in Kyiv and observed removal of graffiti from a bank in Odessa, as well as a cross erected in a Jewish cemetery in Ivano-Frankivsk...
Spot Report by OSCE Observer Mission: The fifty-ninth Russian convoy of ten vehicles crossed into Ukraine and returned through the Donetsk Border Crossing Point
Publishing date: 28 February 2017
On 28 February 2017 at 06:55 hrs (Moscow time), the fifty ninth Russian convoy arrived at the Donetsk Border Crossing Point (BCP). A total of ten vehicles were checked by the Russian border guards and customs services prior to them crossing into Ukraine. All of the ten vehicles had crossed back into the Russian Federation by 12:32 hrs on 28 February...